Chapter 255: Safe and Sound

Not only Chen Dian, but others were also very puzzled.

"Let's go take a look!" Chen Dian immediately led the people forward.

Three people lay on the ground before them.

"Zheng Qian!"

Seeing Zheng Qian lying on the ground with his eyes tightly shut, Chen Dian was stunned.

He glanced to the side and exclaimed delightedly, "Old Cheng and the others are here too!"

Zheng Qian and the two others were covered in blood and filth, with hardly a patch of unharmed skin; they must have suffered greatly inside.

Chen Dian's face filled with surprise; he hurriedly squatted down, extended a finger, and placed it under each of their noses in turn.

"They're alive, they're still alive!"

Chen Dian was very excited.

He never expected that, after meeting the godfather yesterday and hearing his talk of a surprise, the surprise would actually be reuniting here with his long‑missed comrades.

Chen Dian even thought Zheng Qian and the others would die in No. 76.

"Don't just stand there—quickly lift them and bring them back!" Chen Dian called out without hesitation.

Damn it.

This is surely the godfather's doing.

How exactly did he manage to pull people out of that den of devils, No. 76?

……

The few agents who had sent Zheng Qian and the two others to the mass graves hill also returned smoothly.

Chen Yongren then discussed with the doctor the upcoming protective measures and disinfection plan.

Although he knew it was fake, the act still had to be carried out in full.

Only then would it seem more convincing.

Moreover, he himself had to discover that Zheng Qian was not infected.

"How come I feel something's off?" Chen Yongren looked at the pool of blood on the ground, feigned puzzlement, and said to the doctor, "Doctor, I recall that in late‑stage tuberculosis patients, lung damage is usually severe."

"In worse cases they even cough up bits of flesh, but here on this patch of ground there's nothing but blood—nothing else."

"Huh?"

After Chen Yongren's remark, the doctor also felt doubtful: "You're right, something seems off—according to the three patients' blood loss…"

"No, there's a problem!" Without letting the doctor finish, Chen Yongren interrupted, saying, "Doctor, go immediately to the interrogation room, collect blood samples and bring them back to the hospital for testing!"

"I must know the test results today!"

Saying that, Chen Yongren looked around, found the few who had previously gone to the mass graves hill, and shouted sternly, "You lot, go back to the mass graves hill and see whether those three are still there!"

"Huh?"

"We've already been there once."

"When we threw them out of the vehicle, they barely had a breath left—do you still worry they'd run away?"

"Exactly, they don't even have the strength to speak."

"But this is tuberculosis—what if…"

……

These damned agents kept delaying; seeing Chen Yongren's face darken, they drew their guns.

Seeing this, the agents' hearts gave a sudden jolt.

"We're going right now!"

The few of them, without any hesitation, ran quickly toward the truck.

Everyone in the courtyard, unaware of what had happened, instinctively kept their distance from Chen Yongren.

After the doctor finished collecting the blood samples, he also hurried out of the courtyard.

"Advisor Chen, what's going on?" Seeing Chen Yongren send people out again, Gu Yongshan stepped forward to ask.

"We may have been deceived; Zheng Qian and the others are actually not sick—this whole thing is a Red Party plot!" Chen Yongren's face flushed with anger.

"A plot?" Gu Yongshan blinked in surprise.

"Whether it's a plot or not, we'll know once they return!" Chen Yongren's face darkened.

Gu Yongshan was full of questions; seeing Chen Yongren's bad expression, he originally wanted to speak.

But recalling yesterday's events, Gu Yongshan nevertheless kept his mouth shut.

……

Half an hour later.

The hospital called.

As Chen Yongren had expected, after comparing their blood samples with those of previous tuberculosis patients, Zheng Qian and the two others were indeed found to have tuberculosis, and it had already reached an advanced, hopeless stage.

Damn it.

The pill produced by the system really works—it can even fool the hospital's lab tests.

Chen Yongren then asked a few more casual questions, ordered them to drive immediately to take the people to the hospital for examination, and only then, with a solemn expression, hung up the phone.

Upon learning that those three fellows truly had tuberculosis, Gu Yongshan turned deathly pale, sat in the corner trembling uncontrollably, and kept swallowing saliva.

"No, I can't just die like this."

"I still have many ambitions unfulfilled, many things left undone."

"I cannot contract tuberculosis!"

……

It seems this young lady was indeed frightened badly.

The vehicle heading to the Chaotic Burial Mound also returned again.

However, they didn't have the guts to make another trip to the Chaotic Burial Mound.

When the car had gone halfway, they casually found a spot to smoke and rest, dawdling until the time was about right, then they drove back.

After disinfection, they once again found Chen Yongren to report.

"Are you sure the person is dead?" Chen Yongren said coldly.

"Certain!"

"Advisor Chen, you can rest assured we brothers handling the task, those three Red Heads are already dead, can't die any more!"

"If they are still alive, you will take our brothers' heads and go to compensate the Locust Army!"

Upon hearing this, several people nodded.

"Those three Red Party members have all contracted tuberculosis; how could they still be alive?"

"Unless an immortal walks the world, they cannot be saved."

"One's own life is important; why sacrifice oneself?"

"With so many corpses at the Chaotic Burial Mound, who would specially watch over a tuberculosis ghost's corpse?"

"If someone really wants to see, just find any rotten, similar corpse and go through the motions to finish."

"The surroundings are all mountains; there are some wild beasts in the mountains that come down to gnaw on corpses, right?"

"Anyway, before coming, we had already agreed on what to say; you can investigate however you want."

……

Hearing their inner thoughts, Chen Yongren really wanted to say they are talented.

They've only just begun, yet they've already planned their retreat.

However, this aligns even more with what Chen Yongren had in mind.

Although knowing they were lying, Chen Yongren did not expose them; only in this way could the fact that Zheng Qian and the two others fell ill and died suddenly be confirmed!

Calculating the time, if Chen Dian and the others believed his words, they should have already rescued Zheng Qian and the two others.

At the same time he felt relieved in his heart,

Chen Yongren's expression remained stern, his face black enough to drip water.

After all.

Having just come into contact with a tuberculosis patient, although disinfected promptly, one should still worry about one's health; how could one laugh?

Seeing Chen Yongren with a black face, they dared not say more and slunk away.

Upon hearing the news that Zheng Qian and the two others were dead, Gu Yongshan's expression grew even paler, and the body began to tremble slightly.

What is more terrifying than death is waiting for death.

And it is to die in an extremely painful way.

Soon.

The hospital staff then arranged a vehicle to take them to the hospital.

Because tuberculosis was discovered, they turned the interrogation room into a temporary isolation zone and began a comprehensive disinfection inspection.

Chen Yongren, as the Grand Emperor of number 76, naturally was the first to be examined.

X-rays, blood tests — none missing.

Gu Yongshan, as the Director of the Intelligence Department, followed closely behind.

Those agents lined up behind did not receive such good treatment.